With these new restrictions, people will no longer receive unwanted photos or videos from users they don’t follow.
Instagram has launched a feature to protect users from unwanted photos and videos in private messages from strangers. TechCrunch writes about it.
Now, instead of sending an unlimited number of requests to your unfollowers, you can just send them one message. It will be possible to continue sending messages only after the person accepts the chat invitation.
In addition, requests are now limited to text only, which means you can send photos, videos or voice messages to someone who doesn’t follow you only after they accept the chat invitation.
With these new restrictions, people will no longer receive unwanted photos or videos from users they don’t follow, and strangers will no longer be able to send them repetitive messages, Instagram said.
“We want people to feel confident and in control when they open their messages,” said Cindy Southworth, head of women’s safety at Meta.
Remember that Twitter has introduced restrictions on reading messages.
It was also reported that Meta’s new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, passed the 100 million user mark within days of launch, surpassing this milestone faster than OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Source: korrespondent
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